<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: danmg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danmg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:48:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=danmg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Linux Foundation’s demands to the University of Minnesota"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's only a very small minority of engineers who do. Unless you're a PE and you get to sign off on large development projects, there's no real accountability.<p>No matter how much teeth a governing body has, it's always going to be gun shy about denying people their livelihood. They're only going to go after the most egregious and flagrant problems. As long as the transgressions are mild, they pose no real danger to those who want to violate whatever ethics code are in place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:24:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26965572</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26965572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26965572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most queries don't require further action.<p>You can glean the information you were looking for from the results themselves. This is particularly true when you use google as a spell checker.</p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:08:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277049</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Actually Portable Executable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very interesting, but every one of these executives I try on my fairly stock Ubuntu system returns 'run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter'.<p>I'm invoking them with 'bash -c'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26274737</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26274737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26274737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's disingenuous and factually incorrect to compare WSB with a DDOS takedown crew running a tool against scientology.org.<p>WSB is legally sharing trading information and making informed investing decisions based on public information. What happened with Game Stop is completely predicated on large investors, who should have known better, buying positions that exposed them to an infinite amount of risk.<p>The short squeeze is the reason this is happening and not "ancillary." The hedge fund took these positions because they thought they were a form a free money. A better analogy would be "The Producers." The audience just walked out of "Spring Time for Hitler" for intermission and they're humming the songs and laughing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946482</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a pump and dump. It's a short squeeze. It's nothing new. It's the plot of the 80s movie "Trading Places."<p>A hedge fund bought short position futures contracts for 120% of the available stock on the market. That's the underlying reason the price is going up: because they're forced to somehow buy more than 100% of the available Game Stop stock because they agreed to sell it to the people on the other end of those contracts for a set strike price.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:07:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944032</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "J one-page interpreter fragment (1992)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It leaks memory on every line it evaluates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25904051</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25904051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25904051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this really DFA-less? Isn't the look-back table you construct just encoding the DFA?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874571</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "My preferred .NET console stack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The optparse-generic library in Haskell generates a CLI directly from a struct.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794001</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The part didn't break. Someone who thinks they know better decided to make it not work, and complicated some normal person's life with some security theater.<p>If a manufacture intentionally made a product they sold you not work, much like how Tesla disables fast charging capriciously, it would be a violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544837</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're really going to scrap your car from 2015 because the off-brand android doo-hicky they stuck in it hasn't been updated?<p>Even if you're technically inclined, it's not like installing some community provided roms image on your slightly out-of-date flagship phone. The device likely has some proprietary aspects to it which would render it useless even if you attempted.</p>
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<p>Not that much content either at least on the "web".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25488612</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25488612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25488612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "An introduction to property-based testing with QuickCheck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>QuickCheck was probably the thing that stuck the most when delving into Haskell. While, I don't use Haskell daily, using some kind QuickCheck derivative in whatever language I'm working in is something that has stuck.<p>It makes doing "TDD" much more appealing as you're not stuck thinking of the test cases all the time. You run it long enough, add any counter example it finds to your test suite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:50:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458849</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They told people just to make html5 webpages for the first year or so of the iPhone.<p>The first third party native apps were people who managed to get the gcc toolchain to emit a binary that the iPhone could run.<p>Then the App Store came out a few months later. Native apps caught on very well over just making html5 sites for iPhone users, because, in a lot of cities, AT&T's network just couldn't support all the users' very well. Even then, you were limited to a max of something like 20 (?).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386891</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Winamp Skins Collection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Win32 API.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:47:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282795</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got COVID, and I attribute the fact that I happened to get a fairly mild case of it to the fact I've been taking 10k IU of vitamin D3 since January.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266185</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I got a PCR test that came back positive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25260680</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25260680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25260680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. I didn't have the taste and smell sensory symptoms either.<p>I did have hive like blistering down my left thigh though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259762</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wore a mask around other people, and attempted not to cross paths with others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:09:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256068</link><dc:creator>danmg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danmg in "GNU Octave 6.1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have some crusty MATLAB code that does an analysis exactly the way you need it. It was either written by someone who is long gone, or you don't have the resources to rewrite it in 202x's new computational language.</p>
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